Legato notes and links...

I keep telling myself to never admin you know a backup software. If you say you know it, you always run the risk of being declared the backup expert. Well, it's happened to me. I am now on the backup team with my current client until they have the expertise in house to run their Legato 7.2 infrastructure. They had some great contractors from Edge Tech Ltd. Ricky and Co where absolute Legato ninjas. But the word came down to eliminate or convert all contrators. So they were let go, and I'm left holding the backup bag.

So here's my post collecting Legotcha links and commands.

IPnom has a great collection of man pages online

I use the nsr_group and nsr_client pages for nsradmin a lot.

Backupcentral.com has a page: What neat things can I do with nsradmin

Avisit has a list too

David Mussulman has a list of EMC Legato Networker Admin Tools

Here's some of my commands:

root@rcomanchi013:/var/tmp> nsradmin -i - . type: nsr client

show name; group

print

Get some group info

. type: NSR group

show name;status;start time;last start;last end

print

Show groups to find running status

. type: NSR group

show name;status;last start

print

# list the volumes the media server knows about that aren't “full” (!full doesn't seem to work)

mminfo -a -r 'volume,%used,pool,location' -q '!full'

To find a tape that's been cloned off site, when you know the 'onsite' tape that was backed up to:

mminfo -q volume=N31407 -r 'volume,cloneid,client'

This will spit out things like:

Volume CloneID Host

N31407 1204238003 host2.name.net.com.org.blah

N31407 1204239940 host2.name.net.com.org.blah

Then you can search for the CloneID in question:

mminfo -q cloneid=1204239940 -r 'volume'

Which will put out a list of volumes. Find the volume of the type that goes off site and you're all set.